Mid-American Conference

MAC East Player of the Week
Anita Brown, Akron, Guard
Junior,  Warren, Ohio/Harding
Junior Anita Brown turned in a stellar week for Akron registering 26.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.5 steals en route to leading the Zips to a pair of road victories… In Akron’s 102-101 come-from-behind win at Toledo, Brown recorded a career and team season-best 36 points. She connected on more than 59 percent (.591) of her shots, including going 2-for-2 from downtown, while pulling down a team-high nine rebounds and adding three assists and three steals. The 36-point effort represented the fourth-best single-game scoring output in program history… Trailing by as many as 14 in the first half, Brown helped direct a 12-2 run with six points that brought the Zips to within two, 48-46, with 1:17 left in the first half. A pair of free throws by Brown sent the Zips into the intermission trailing 53-50. She finished the half scoring the final 10 points for Akron. A 9-2 run by Toledo in the second half extended the Zips' deficit to 69-56 at the 13:45 mark. Akron answered with a 15-2 run that included 10 points from Brown including back-to-back three-pointers to even the affair at 71, with 10:36 left in the game… She followed with a team-best 17-point effort in sparking the Zips to a comeback victory, 65-47, at Miami. She connected on better than 47 percent of her shots from the field, while pulling down a team-best eight rebounds. Brown also added five assists and two steals. She contributed six points to a 17-0 run to open the second half that broke open a 31-31 game at halftime... On the season, she is averaging a team-best 20.2 points per game, while also recording 7.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.2 steals per contest. She has scored in double figures in all but one game this season.

MAC West Player of the Week
Inma Zanoguera, Toledo, Guard
Senior,  Llucmajor, Spain/IES CTEIB
Senior Inma Zanoguera averaged team highs in points (19.0 ppg), assists (10.5 apg), steals (3.5 spg) and minutes played (36.0 mpg) in two games last week. One of two Rockets to score in double digits in MAC contests, Zanoguera shot 41.9 percent (13-of-31) from the field, including an impressive 55.6 percent (5-of-9) from three-point range, and 70.0 percent (7-of-10) from the charity stripe. The two-time All-MAC selection opened the week with a career-high 28 points and a collegiate-best 13 helpers vs. Akron on Wednesday to post her 16th career double-double. Zanoguera followed up that performance against the Zips with 10 points, a game-high eight dimes, a contest-best five steals and four boards vs. Western Michigan on Saturday.  .. Overall this season, Zanoguera is averaging squad bests in scoring (15.8 ppg), rebounding (6.9 rpg), assists (5.7 apg), steals (2.0 spg), minutes played (35.7 mpg), overall field goal percentage (.472, 85-of-180) and free throw percentage (.908, 69-of-76. She currently leads the MAC in assists, as well as ranking second in free throw percentage, minutes played and assist/turnover ratio (2.2, 91-41), tied for third in steals, fourth in scoring, ninth in overall field goal percentage, tied for 11th in defensive boards (4.8 rpg) and 15th in overall rebounding.


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Nathalie Fontaine,?Ball State, Forward
Junior, Stockholm, Sweden
Fontaine started the week off with a double-double against Kent State after scoring 19 points and pulling down 10 rebounds.  Fontaine went 6-of-10 from the field against the Golden Flashes to help Ball State remain undefeated in Mid-American Conference action Wednesday night at Worthen Arena.  She led the Cardinals again at Buffalo with 10 points and a career-best 15 rebounds.  With the 15 rebound performance Fontaine moved to 16th all-time in front of former Cardinal Gena Rusch (1988-91) with 544 career rebounds.  The double-double was the fourth of the season for Fontaine and 13th of her career.  For the week Fontaine averaged 14.5 points which moves her into 12th place all-time in scoring with 1,248 points at Ball State.  Fontaine also averaged 12.5 rebounds last week in MAC play.

Deborah Hoekstra, Bowling Green, Guard
Senior, East Lansing, Mich. (East Lansing)
Bowling Green senior Deborah Hoekstra led the Falcons in scoring and rebounding last week, averaging 14.0 ppg and 10.0 rpg as BGSU split a pair of games against MAC West Division opposition. Hoekstra, a guard, had 14 points and 10 rebounds in each of BG’s games, vs. Northern Illinois and Eastern Michigan. She shot 50% from the field, going 8-of-16, and hit 4 of 11 (36.4%) shots from three-point range. Hoekstra went 8-of-9 (88.9%) from the free-throw line on the week. She was 3-of-5 from the floor and 7-of-8 from the stripe in the NIU game, leading all players in rebounding and tying for game honors in scoring as the Falcons posted a 65-59 win. Then, three days later, Hoekstra again paced the Falcons in both scoring and rebounding, hitting three three-pointers against EMU. On the season, Hoekstra is averaging 11.0 points and 5.7 rebounds per game, leading the team in the former and ranking second among healthy Falcons in the latter. In MAC games, she has team-best totals of 12.2 ppg and 9.8 rpg, tying for fourth in the conference in rebounding. She leads the MAC in FT% in MAC games.

Kristen Sharkey, Buffalo, Forward
Senior, Manahawkin, NJ / Southern Regional
Senior Kristen Sharkey averaged a double-double and scored her 1,000th point in a 1-1 week for the Bulls. She scored 13 points and grabbed a game-best 13 rebounds Tuesday against Western Michigan increasing her career point total to 997. Sharkey posted a game-high 17 points and had a Bull-best 13 boards in the Bulls' 53-43 victory over Ball State on Saturday. She finished the game with 1,014 points, good for 20th all-time at UB. Her 26 rebounds moved her into 14th in program history with 630 career boards. Sharkey shot .385 (10-for-26) on the week.

Kerby Tamm, Central Michigan
Senior, Petosky, Mich.
Kerby Tamm led the Chippewas from behind the arc in a pair of games this week. All 12 of Tamm’s points against Miami came from downtown, going 4-of-8 from 3-point range in CMU’s 60-54 win over the RedHawks. Tamm continued to lead CMU in 3-point field goals in Saturday’s match-up against Ohio, sinking a team-high three triples to end with nine points on the day. The senior also pulled down three boards and added one steal and one block. Tamm is fifth all-time in CMU history in three-point field goals with 156.  

Brianna Puni, Eastern Michigan, Forward
Senior,  St. Charles, Mo.-Incarnate Word Academy (Illinois State)
Junior Senior Brianna Puni picked up her first double-double at EMU with 10 points and 10 rebounds in the team's victory over Bowling Green, Jan. 17. The win snapped a 13-game losing skid against the Falcons dating back to the 2004-05 campaign. The 10 points equaled Puni's season-best since joining the program in December. This was on the heels if a six point, eight rebound and two block effort versus Ohio, Jan. 14… For the week, she finished 6-of-12 from the field and a perfect 4-for-4 at the charity stripe while averaging 24.0 minutes per game.

CiCi Shannon, Kent State, Center
Senior, Hazel Crest, Ill./Southern Illinois
Shannon averaged a double-double this week to lead the team despite two losses.  The senior also added in six blocks in the two games.  She went for ten points and 11 rebounds at Ball State on Wednesday and followed that with 13 points and 16 rebounds at Northern Illinois Saturday afternoon.  Shannon has recorded three-straight double-doubles.  With 116 career blocks in two years as a Golden Flash, she is tied for 3rd most career blocks in the Kent State record book.

Ally Lehman, NIU, Guard
Sophomore, Nineveh, Ind./Indian Creek
Ally Lehman had another week of filling box scores for the Huskies as she led the Huskies in scoring (15.5),
rebounding (6.5) and assists (5.0). Lehman shot 56.5 percent from the field on the weekend (13-23), including 42.8 percent behind the three point line… Last Saturday versus Kent State, Lehman was 8-for-14 from the field with 19 points, while dishing six assists and grabbing six rebounds. The sophomore also blocked one shot recorded one steal.

Kiyanna Black, Ohio, Guard
Junior, Columbus, Ohio/Columbus Africentric
Black helped lead the Bobcats to two victories last week. Against Eastern Michigan on Jan. 14, Black scored 12 points and grabbed four rebounds. She was 5-of-12 from field goal range and 2-of-5 from beyond the arch. She also recorded two assists in Ohio's 82-59 victory against EMU. On Jan. 17 against Central Michigan, Black led the Bobcats with 21 points, her fourth 20-plus point game of the season. She also grabbed four rebounds and two assists. Black shot 8-of-16 from the field and 5-of-12 from three point range to help give the Bobcats a 71-51 victory and hand CMU its first conference loss of the season. The 2-0 weekend helped improve the Bobcats to 13-3 and 4-1 in the MAC.

Miracle Woods, Western Michigan, Forward
Junior, Fort Wayne, Ind./Bishop Luers
Bronco junior forward Miracle Woods averaged 14.5 points and 7.0 rebounds last week, while also totaling three assists and three blocks, as Western Michigan split a pair of games, defeating Buffalo on the road and falling to Toledo at home. In WMU's 62-59 win at Buffalo, Woods shot 5-for-8 from the floor and scored 12 points, had four rebounds, three assists, a steal and a block. Defensively, she helped keep Buffalo leading scorer Kristen Sharkey scoreless in the second half. It was Western Michigan's first win in Buffalo since Feb. 7, 2005. It was just the third ever road win against the Bulls in 10 all-time meetings in UB’s Alumni Arena. Against Toledo, Woods finished with her first double-double of the season (11th career) with 17 points and 10 rebounds, including six on the offensive glass. She blocked two shots as well.